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This was the moment, just over a month ago, when the ADL could've put an end to Republicans doing Nazi salutes. They didn't. They chose instead to provide cover by calling it "an awkward gesture in a moment of enthusiasm." Now the sieg heil salute has been normalized. The ADL literally had ONE JOB.

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Costa Rica human rights ombudsman on US deportation flight yesterday: "We observed a significant number of deportees, babies in arms, children, women, elderly people, issuing calls for help, especially to be able to inform their families of their whereabouts, showing and expressing their distress."

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Musk trying to buy Wisconsin judicial election to strangle its restoration of democratic elections www.lawyersgunsmoneyblog.com/2025/02/musk...

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It's impossible to predict the future and I am prepared to be disappointed, but I feel the probability error bars are creeping towards an enormous backlash to this shit

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If you are a 90s kid wondering what it was like to live in the Soviet Union where the media printed lies that everyone knew were lies, here you go. Apple does not have any manufacturing in Mexico www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

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This was always going to play out like one of the color revolutions: Mass protests, violent repression... and then we see what kind of country we're left with.

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Something to note about is that this is lowkey one of the most powerful labor leaders in the country. The flight attendant union striking (which you may note was a prediction on the Schnorkles bingo card earlier) will bring shit to its knees.

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This was published last October www.theatlantic.com/politics/arc...

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Starlink in Ukraine operates based on paid contracts. If it’s being used as an extortion tool, then other countries should consider it a potential security risk - just like Russian gas used for blackmailing. If Ukraine is cut off, it would be wise for Europe to reconsider its use

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The Twitter outcome is legitimately very sad. What used to be a pretty fun place is now akin to a room full of the dumbest people you know playing Zoo Tycoon poorly while being entirely convinced that they’re actually engaging in serious and sophisticated wildlife reserve management.

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Doing this right before firing three top military leaders is so deranged. Source at DoD told me, “Disdain for Hegseth is a near-universal feeling even among the Trumpiest in the office.“

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This is very, very bad. Am working on a write-up, but let’s just say that firing military leaders for blatantly political reasons is wildly inappropriate; firing all the too lawyers is ominous; firing them all at the same time is a terrifying five-alarm fire

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Just look at these paragraphs from the AP story. Hegseth called Brown unqualified solely because he's Black. Then they fired him... and replaced him with a white guy so indisputably unqualified that he requires a Presidential waiver. This is what "merit" means to them. apnews.com/article/trum...

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"I'll kill for you, sir." — Donald Trump's handpicked chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff

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Of the Chiefs of Staff, vice chiefs of staff, and judge advocates general of the three branches, Trump fired all the women and Black people.

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uscode.house.gov/view.xhtml?r... I'm telling you there are hundreds of federal employees who were let go as probationary but who are actually employees with appeals rights under the Title 5 statute.

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man, reading /r/army is kinda depressing

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@washingtonpost: Officials with the General Services Administration told staff that probationary workers who took the Trump administration’s deferred resignation offer would not necessarily be paid through Sept. 30, going back on a guarantee made to all federal workers.

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The speed the universities have moved to comply with this stuff is astonishing. These are not fast moving orgs so embracing the erasure of inclusion and equity this quickly tells you about their leadership’s commitment.

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“We had to erase trans people or we couldn’t get our federal funding” Fuck the federal funding. You fight, you sue, you do not become complicit in our mass erasure. We are all in this together, and we all go down together. I will not allow us to be jettisoned or erased.

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Firing up #FridayNightZillow for a truly insane megamansion in Oklahoma City, reportedly owned by successful defense contractor / marijuana processor. $16.49M buys 51K sf, 70K gallon pool w/slide, grotto, bball, bowling, 200 koi, fireman pole, bars, 33-car garage... www.zillow.com/homedetails/...

submitted 20 hours ago • 73 comments

the reason that the american right are leaning hard into their immorality - which they themselves understand very clearly to be immoral - is, at the bottom of it, they don’t believe in anything.

submitted 20 hours ago • 39 comments

2 fucking headlines right next to each other

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Please please please goad Musk into flying on one of his totally safe rockets.

submitted 22 hours ago • 72 comments

> @mediaitenews.bsky.social www.mediaite.com/politics/mar...

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Editor Commentary: Who does this to other people? To doctors, nurses, farmers, teachers, professors, scientists, veterans, working families, people with disabilities, children with special needs, poor people? What twisted, unnatural men.

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So they removed the black chairman of the Joint Chiefs in the middle of his 4-year tour, without cause, and they're seeking to replace him with a white retired Air Force three-star general who lacks the requisite experience as a service chief or combatant commander? Huh, how about that

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Firing all the JAGs is very very bad

submitted 22 hours ago • 70 comments

broke: dems will flip the house in 2026 woke: dems flip the house in 2025

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The internal medicine clinic at the Navy’s third largest base in the United States is now staffed with one doctor for 2,200 patients, forcing officials to move one-third of the backlog of cases to medical care off the base.

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FOLLOWUP: SECDEF Hegseth also firing the CNO, the USAF Vice-Chief, and somewhat unusually and ominously to do in the same breath, the senior JAGs of the Army, Navy, and USAF

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btw, i will tell you this - i have been talking to people all day, and the media is missing, whether intentionally or not, how absolutely, volcanically angry the people who have been fired are, not because they lost their jobs, but because their jobs matter, to us

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CSPAN Caller from West Virginia: I’m a diabetic and I’m on Medicare. When Biden was in there, my insulin was $6 for a 28 day supply. I just went to CVS, it went back up to $80…

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Ha! Local Man Spray Paints Penis On—Oh Shit, That’s a Different EV Brand: bit.ly/41oIrzs

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its genuinely insane that they're firing CJCS for being black and CNO for being a woman. that is what's happening here

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🚨BREAKING: Federal Court GRANTS sweeping nationwide injunction against Trump DEI executive orders finding that they violate First and Fifth Amendments to the Constitution. A huge victory for @democracyforward.org and its clients. A stinging loss for Trump. Visit www.democracydocket.com for details.

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I truly hate the people doing this..

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It would be on brand for these nimrods to fire all the intelligence experts who speak Chinese and Arabic, in the name of fighting woke DEI

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Cuts to NSF expected to be at 50% reduction in force for an independent agency that fuels discovery and innovation. "The NSF budget was $9B, or 0.13% of the total [budget]." This is not about fiscal prudence. This is about killing universities. nanoscale.blogspot.com/2025/02/the-...

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Holy crap. At his town hall last night, Rep. Rich McCormick compared his own constituents who asked him tough and fair questions to January 6 insurrectionists

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This is the guy who is manufacturing torture porn for the White House featuring the pain and anguish of immigrants being forcefully deported. Billy McLaughlin. Formerly heading digital for the NRA.

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